Becoming Quote by Edward Weston

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been…

— Chuck Close

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have…

— Chuck Close

I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people.…

— Frank Capra

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during…

— Ralph Gibson

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff…

— Edward Burtynsky

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it…

— Bill Henson

Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their…

— Peter Turnley

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

— Berenice Abbott